The dataset we present summarizes contracts in plain English.
While there is no precise definition of plain English, the general philosophy is to make a text readily accessible for as many English speakers as possible.
[1]}, [2]}. Guidelines for plain English often suggest a preference for words with Saxon etymologies rather than a Latin/Romance etymologies, the use of short words, sentences, and paragraphs, etc.https://plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/ [2]}, [4]}. In this respect, the proposed task involves some level of  text simplification, as we will discuss in Section REF . However, existing resources for text simplification target literacy/reading levels [5]} or learners of English as a second language [6]}. Additionally, these models are trained using Wikipedia or news articles, which are quite different from legal documents.
These systems are trained without access to sentence-aligned parallel corpora; they only require semantically similar texts [7]}, [8]}, [9]}. To the best of our knowledge, however, there is no existing dataset to facilitate the transfer of legal language to plain English.
